New VisualARQ 3 Beta 9 released!

VisualARQ 3 Beta 5 (2024-04-26) now available:

FEATURES:

  • Attributes:
    • #13462: Option to define linetype scale from the style attributes
    • #5025: Section attributes by Layer
  • Layout:
    • #10644: Export multiple layouts to DWG
    • #6896: Export layouts to DWG
  • Object: Guide:
    • #12858: vaSelGuide command
  • Object: Table:
    • #12342: Identify the elements in the table by selecting them in the model

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • Attributes:
    • #11505: Link Section attributes with Rhino Section Styles
  • Clashes:
    • #13424: Clash report list behavior when selecting row items
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #13818: Extend walls created from Grasshopper styles upwards
  • Interface:
    • #13019: Show icons for the object types in th import and export styles dialogs
    • #11353: Group Roof’s slopes angle and area properties into one
  • Object: Column:
    • #13723: Add column extend commands to the VisualARQ menu
  • Performance:
    • #13655: Slow performance moving or deleting slabs
  • Toolbar:
    • #13362: Show a Column unextend command in the toolbar
    • #13297: Show vaSelSameType and vaSelSameStyle commands in the toolbar

CHANGES:

  • Attributes:
    • #8664: Change term “By Parent” with “By Object” for style attributes
  • Grasshopper: Components:
    • #11861: Change the name of the “Set Property Value” component and its “Property” input
    • #11860: Change the name of the “Get Property Value” component and its “Property” input
  • Menu:
    • #10576: Add vaCurtainWallExtend command in the menu
    • #9440: Add the Wall Extract Path command in the Menu and wall context menu
  • Object: Section:
    • #13813: Create Sections with the “Clippable” option unchecked by default
  • Toolbar:
    • #13728: Add vaSelGuide in the Select Toolbar
    • #13719: Add vaCurtainWallFromSurface command to the curtain wall toolbar
    • #13102: Change in the beams toolbar

ERRORS:

  • Attributes:
    • #13910: Wall layer doesn’t take the proper hatch color
    • #13903: Component with section attribute assigned by Layer takes the attributes assigned by object
    • #13896: Section Style by wall Layer fails in some styles
    • #13893: Section attributes from VisualARQ 2 models are not recognized
    • #13878: Section Styles by Layer on the style components doesn’t work
    • #13812: Show the “Clippable” property also when the Section styles is not Custom
    • #13809: I can’t change the section hatch pattern in styles dialog
    • #13801: Section styles don’t work on VisualARQ objects
    • #7730: Section attributes are lost when using boolean commands on polysurfaces or extrusions
    • #5813: When an extrusion turns into a polysurface, it loses the section attributes
  • Crash:
    • #13895: Crash when clicking on the ifcTag icon after selecting a polyline
    • #13867: Crash opening this file
    • #13828: Crash when selecting the IFC Tag panel for a text
    • #13814: Crash after saving file
    • #13785: Rhino closes after clicking the CANCEL button in styles dialog
    • #13772: Rhino crashes when opening this file
    • #13767: Crash when opening this file
    • #13025: Rhino 8 crashes after opening this file
  • Grasshopper: Components:
    • #13842: VisualARQ objects can’t be baked from Grasshopper components
    • #13789: Guides return Null values in Grasshopper
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #13790: Wrong intersection of walls created from a Grasshopper style
  • Layout:
    • #13820: Missing geometry in a DWG file exported from a layout
    • #13780: Inexistent hatch is exported to a DWG file
    • #13765: vaExportToDWG only exports the detail frames
    • #13191: Preview error of a section in page layout
  • Level:
    • #13862: Crash after creating a new sub-level
    • #13751: Cannot hide levels on this model with multiple buildings
    • #13739: Level Cut Plane is not preserved when unsetting a building boundary
    • #13185: Ugly intersection line when I activate a cut plane
  • Object:
    • #13912: Osnaps don’t work on parts of selected VisualARQ objects occluded by walls
    • #13890: Intersection lines in wall joins appear in VisualARQ 2 documents
    • #13810: Control arrows don’t snap properly
    • #13763: Double click on the gumball doesn’t work with VisualARQ objects in Rhino 8
    • #11113: No VisualARQ objects are visible when VisualARQ is disabled
  • Object: Column:
    • #13766: Crash after selecting Other in the profile sizes of column properties
  • Object: Curtain Wall:
    • #13850: Curtain wall from surface error
    • #13843: Curtain wall frame rotates when panels are curved
    • #13821: Curtain wall from surface generates some triangulated panels
    • #13815: Rhino not responding after creating a curtain wall from a surface
  • Object: Guide:
    • #13811: Guides hide in page layouts
    • #13534: It is not possible to select guides from the Top viewport
  • Object: Openings:
    • #13869: Wrong 3D aperture of door with different leaf sizes
    • #13868: Wrong 2D representation of door with different leaf sizes
    • #13692: Door with different leaf sizes don’t update properly
    • #3317: When creating a new door or window style from the Wizard, the leaves widths are not divided equally
  • Object: Roof:
    • #13824: Roof from VisualARQ 2 doesn’t open well in VisualARQ 3
    • #13770: Error in hip roof corners when Edge cut is Square
  • Object: S"ection:
    • #7160: “Set Section View to Viewport” button doesn’t works well with jogged sections
  • Object: Stair:
    • #13788: Slab and Stair don’t hide the intersection line
    • #13787: Hide stair-wall intersection line
    • #13758: Wall is subtracted from a stair performing a wall extend
    • #12095: Spiral stairs don’t display their projection in top view
  • Object: Table:
    • #13865: Table grouping is not preserved from VA 2 models
    • #13858: Slow performance when navigating through the table styles dialog
    • #13741: Sums are not correct for grouped properties
    • #13725: I can’t edit a tag value from the Table
    • #13676: Table report is erased if a 2D table in the model is deleted
    • #13175: Disable Sum and Average Total types for property fields using texts
  • Object: Tag:
    • #13844: Some objects don’t show the properties
    • #13782: Tag doesn’t display the border if cut plane is enabled
  • Object: Views:
    • #13866: Incomprehensible increase of file size after updating a plan view that has less geometry
    • #13831: Creating a plan/section view increases 3DM file size too much
  • Object: Wall:
    • #13883: Wrong wall join of Grasshopper styles when inserting a door
    • #13724: Area is not recalculated after extending a wall downwards
    • #10413: Circular Wall join error
  • Object: Window:
    • #13754: Wrong window position in roof when alignment is not interior
    • #13664: Changing the style of a window instance affects other windows
    • #12355: Alignment is reversed for windows inserted in roofs and slabs
  • Other:
    • #11721: VisualARQ objects disappear if I open a model without having VisualARQ installed
  • Rhino.Inside.Revit:
    • #13585: Door changes its style without a reason
  • Toolbar:
    • #13593: VisualARQ spaces toolbar is shown twice when you are selecting which toolbars you want to have available
    • #13361: Weird toolbar behavior

If you own a VisualARQ 2 license key, you can download and try it out!

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